On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:56:14AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:> I guess not mounting /sys doesn't help here. It would be nice. Maybe with> a CONFIG_I_WILL_NEVER_MOUNT_SYSFS we could avoid all those allocations.

I believe sysfs is required for mounting the root filesystem - seename_to_dev_t in init/do_mounts.c.